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# Emphatics merge with voiced stops, yielding unaspirated stops; these stops are subject to allophonic voicing mutation

# Consonant shifts

## ħ ś > sje-sound

## Basque s → š

## ħ ś > sje-sound (''ś'')

## ʕ > Eevo L

## Initial š → h

# Spirantization of aspirated stops; fricatives become subject to voicing mutation

# Unstressed long vowels shorten, preserving vowel quality

# Stress ~~shift~~

# Knench stress shift: Stress shifts to the propretonic if there is a propretonic

# Maghrebi syncope

## pretonic /a/ and /e/ deleted

## unstressed long vowels shorten; unstressed overlongs shorten to unreduced

# Pre-consonantal v ð ɣ lenite, causing loss of consonantal roots

## What else to help along?

Finite verbs are still common, hence tons of principal parts; also much Old Canaanite grammar is retained (like how Old Irish retains much of PIE morphology). This motivates replacement of finite verbs by infinitives and verbnouns in Modern Knench.

== Middle Knench to Modern Knench ==

# OSL

# ą > oo, unstressed ą > u

# final ə drops

# -əð → əɹ

# Non-rhoticity, triggering crazy vowel shifts to formerly non-rhotic vowels; this is the "Knench GVS"

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 # Emphatics merge with voiced stops, yielding unaspirated stops; these stops are subject to allophonic voicing mutation
 # Consonant shifts
-## ħ ś > sje-sound
+## Basque s → š
+## ħ ś > sje-sound (''ś'')
 ## ʕ > Eevo L
+## Initial š → h
 # Spirantization of aspirated stops; fricatives become subject to voicing mutation
 # Unstressed long vowels shorten, preserving vowel quality
-# Stress shift
+# Knench stress shift: Stress shifts to the propretonic if there is a propretonic
 # Maghrebi syncope
 ## pretonic /a/ and /e/ deleted
 ## unstressed long vowels shorten; unstressed overlongs shorten to unreduced
 # Pre-consonantal v ð ɣ lenite, causing loss of consonantal roots
+## What else to help along?
+Finite verbs are still common, hence tons of principal parts; also much Old Canaanite grammar is retained (like how Old Irish retains much of PIE morphology). This motivates replacement of finite verbs by infinitives and verbnouns in Modern Knench.
 == Middle Knench to Modern Knench ==
 # OSL
+# ą > oo, unstressed ą > u
 # final ə drops
 # -əð → əɹ
 # Non-rhoticity, triggering crazy vowel shifts to formerly non-rhotic vowels; this is the "Knench GVS"